Ambassador for Epilepsy Award 2019

Amza Ali is founding President of the Jamaican League Against Epilepsy (ILAE chapter) and the Jamaican Epilepsy Association (IBE chapter). His efforts saw the inclusion, in 2004, of epilepsy as one of the 14 chronic conditions covered by Jamaica’s National Health Fund. He was responsible for creation of the region’s first video-EEG monitoring unit and the establishment of a telemedicine facility (2011-2014) with linkage to Yale’s Department of Neurology.